Norma Field – In the Realm of a Dying Emperor
Part 1 – Chibana Shoichi – Burning the Hinomaru
Only very rarely one’s opinion and attitude towards politics can be changed by reading a book. While being interested in current politics in Japan, this book changed my view onto it by providing the...
PiwigoPress release 2.25
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress to the WordPress servers. This is only a minor release with very few fixes In particular, I fixed some misbehavior of the “load categories” button, and...
Gnu-Freefont fonts and XeLaTeX
(This is a repost with permission from Cikitsā, Dominik Wujastyk’s blog with a few additions.) There’s been a long-standing issue about using the Gnu-Freefont fonts with XeLaTeX. The fonts are “Free Serif”, “Free Sans”...
メルボルンへ ー 初めての「down under」
今日始めてのオーストラリアの旅が始まる。（はい、オーストラリア、カンガルーの国、サウンド・オブ・ミュージックのオーストリアじゃない！）メルボルンで行っている学会に参加する。
Movie: Young & Beautiful (Jeune & jolie)
Some days ago I found a free evening to watch this movie, Young & Beautiful (IMDB, Wiki). Strange enough, the movie is titled 17歳 in Japan – seems the addiction of some parts of...
Writing Japanese in LaTeX : Part 3 – Simple documents
After the bit , we continue this tutorial on writing Japanese in LaTeX today with a bit more hands-on practice, namely writing simple hello-world-style documents for different engines/packages. Today’s part will also include a...
A Tribute to Discomfort
Stop doing what you are doing! Stop it, NOW! Here it is, I have never, absolutely never seen something as similar to what I am thinking before. The whole point summed up into one sentence:
Tails 1.2.1, Debian jessie installer, System Rescue CD on USB
Back in May I on how to set up a usb stick with Debian/jessie installer, System Reschue CD and Tails. Since then several new versions of Tails and SystemRescueCD have been released, and the...
Writing Japanese in LaTeX : Part 2 – Characters and Encodings
After the very brief introduction to Japanese typesetting and the available options in the , let us now dive into some technical explanations concerning character sets and encodings. In this blog post we will...
Plex Home Theater 1.3.2 Debian build
I have updated my build of Plex Home Theater to the lastest release 1.3.2. All the builds from 1.3.0 onward had connection problems with my server. I have now changed to a different packaging...
Writing Japanese in LaTeX : Part 1 – Introduction
For Japanese people it might be obvious and easy how to write Japanese documents in LaTeX, and there are many pages (in Japanese) explaining details. But for the foreigner who is able to read...
